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A man has died and two people have been injured in a three-vehicle crash on a major route. The 86-year-old car driver died at the scene of the collision on the A66 near Bowes, County Durham, on Tuesday morning. A seriously injured van driver was airlif…
A man arrested after a lorry transporting a static caravan blocked the A27 in East Sussex has been released under investigation, according to police.The wide load got stuck and “caused significant traffic congestion” in Polegate on Tuesday morning, Sus…
Emergency services, including two air ambulances, were called to Bowes, near Barnard Castle, on Tuesday (September 30) following a crash just before 10.30am. [1]
The incident, which involved a HGV, a van, and a car, saw the major road closed between th…
A lorry driver has died in a crash that saw his load of timber tumble down from a motorway bridge onto the M8 in Glasgow.Police Scotland is investigating whether the 61-year-old man took ill at the wheel during the incident, at about 17:30 on Tuesday.T…
A major incident has been declared by emergency services after a stretch of the M5 was closed in both directions due to a fire on a lorry carrying electric vehicles. The motorway was shut in Devon between junction 28 at Cullompton and junction 29 for E…
A lorry driver has died in a crash that saw his load of timber tumble down from a motorway bridge onto the M8 in Glasgow. Police Scotland is investigating whether the 61-year-old man took ill at the wheel during the incident, at about 17:30 on Tuesday….
An expectant father from Derby died when an inexperienced BMW driver “made a terrible, terrible error”[1] and pulled out of a junction at Breadsall, killing him instantly, a trial has heard.
A jury was told how 24-year-old Ryan Birtles,[2] an up and co…
A number of criminals were jailed in Surrey in September for a wide variety a crimes. The people who were put behind bars include murderers and rapists, including a former teacher who sexually abused students.
Another case saw five men jailed for their…
Andrew Richard Patterson, 57, of Trent, Sherborne, Dorset, had been travelling in a VW Golf on the M4 junctions 19 to 20 and the M5 junctions 15 to 17 on Monday, December 9, 2024.
The court heard that the 57-year-old had been driving at 71mph despite a…
Police were called at 1.20pm on Monday, following a collision between junction 19 for Knutsford and junction 20 for the M56 Lymm Interchange.
Drivers faced long queues on the northbound carriageway as the crash partially blocked the motorway.
A spokesm…